Corona Devotionals

This morning as I was praying, I included a couple friends of mine who were going to see a judge.  My prayers began with an intent for ease-of-process for them, but they developed into prayers for fairness and justice in how things would roll-out for my friends.  Not that I have any specific reason to doubt the fairness and justice of our court systems, but none-the-less, that is where the Holy Spirit directed my prayer, and so I prayed for these things.  The authority that comes with governing people and making judgments and rulings for people and nations can become over-powering, intoxicating, and even tainting at times.  This has always been the case because “the human heart is the most deceitful of all things,  and desperately wicked.  Who really knows how bad it is?" (Jeremiah 17:9). Without God (and even with Him), our hearts can and will wander! Our justice system is no more vulnerable to the temptations of corrupt power than any other area of leade...

Do we feel like life is dragging ? Or maybe more specifically...it's as if we are lagging ? We want to be further along than we are today, and yet. Here we are. Not as far along as we wanted to be. Not as developed/accomplished/ finished as we wanted to be. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. The time, the healing, the progress, the maturity, the fruition is not here yet. We are still in the journey. The slow....sometimes arduous...sometimes mundane journey. Every day brings...another day, and we are moving in the right direction but so slowly, Lord! We never thought it would take this long. ~~~ This morning our son noticed a trail in our backyard grass. Can you see it too? A second glance outside showed us who had trudged that path... s-l-o-w-l-y. A painted turtle had made-his-way to our back patio and as we enjoyed watching him for a few minutes, I realized that he was not sad, frustrated, or disappointed with how long it had taken him to move through our big back yard....

I was at an on-campus university event with our son yesterday, and after the session, audience Q&A and tour, we had enjoyed a fruitful and enlightening visit, and we began to make the walk to our car. But in a hallway, I met my "twin" in the form of a current university student.  We weren't twins by appearance, as I am 5'8" and she said she was 4'5".  I am light-skinned, and she was dark.  I was walking and she was in a wheelchair and missing one leg.  But besides those things, as she spoke, I found that  we were exactly the same! She was chipper, and kind, and full of life.  I liked her from the start.   And as she warmly engaged us, we found out that t his young lady had just finished her first year of college, and at (about) age 20, she then went on to give a lmost every piece of college advice that I give to my children, except  she said it in a young, fun, hip, engaging way.   Just a few of her words-of-wisdom to our son i...